circus_circuitry t1_itulwns wrote on October 26, 2022 at 12:59 PM

Reply to comment by TheBatsAndTheBees in I just finished reading The Hobbit to my 6 year old daughter, and she loved it! by Shaosil

Pick a couple of little books right now, and start reading them to your baby NOW! You'll be wonderfully awed by your child's attentiveness to those particular stories when they're born.

My kids are 15 months apart. The oldest spent several months in the NICU and at some point I took in a cd player & at night I played the first Jewel album of lullabies, on repeat. I did that to create an ambient sound that we could take home because the only ambient sounds he would have heard are the monitors and machines and people. It was a lifesaver. Fast forward to my second child being born & that same music was equally effective for settling her at bedtime having "heard" it all through her gestation. Same for the books we read over and over.

Reading to my kids is one of the things in motherhood that is purely good and joyful that I still love doing although they're 11 & 12 now so it's getting to be a thing I have to convince them is great!

bamako45 t1_iu210j4 wrote on October 27, 2022 at 11:37 PM

Maybe one should play Wagner’s Der Ring der Nibelungen (Ring Cycle - a series of, like, 4-6 great operas, performed, one after the other, on my 13 CD copy, I have the whole Ring Cycle (Die Walkure, Lohengrin, Gotterdammerung and, about 3 others). That would be a good way to give your infant some culture, even though the baby doesn’t know WTF “culture” means (or how to say it)! But it could set the stage for a possible, if this went the way one hoped, appreciation for music.